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Denominational Groups, 2000

167,217	97,790	6,729	829,933	128,394	1,583,770
Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Orthodox	Catholic	Other	Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	% Change
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+6,073	2363.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+21	+65,535	1468.0%
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+996	1423.0%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+128	229.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+13	+521,469	169.0%
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+604	153.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+126	81.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	+3	+349	66.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+586	64.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+1	+648	56.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+14	+882	56.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+28	+5,850	54.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+1,216	51.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+175	46.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+41	+14,396	45.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+1,142	34.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+428	28.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+317	27.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+2,385	26.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+11	+1,136	18.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	-2	+55	14.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+600	13.0%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+691	10.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-3	+405	9.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+4	+979	6.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	+1,393	6.0%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	-3	-1.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+7	-215	-2.0%
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-12	-3.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+46	-1,183	-4.0%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-25	-5.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+6	-2,097	-11.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-2	-872	-12.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+1	-3,057	-13.0%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-304	-16.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+3	-653	-23.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-845	-33.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-276	-36.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-408	-37.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	-2,715	-38.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	-2	-343	-46.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+61	n.a.
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+52	n.a.
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+15,440	n.a.
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+248	n.a.
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+1,950	n.a.
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+378	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+2	+736	n.a.
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+130	n.a.
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+13	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+16	+15,580	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+3,050	n.a.
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+346	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+3	+3,198	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+353	n.a.
	Totals:	+301	+657,091	+119.2%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 1,861,846; in 2000 it was 2,813,833. The total population changed 12.6%. The adherent totals for 1980 (553,787) represent 29.7% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (1,230,063) include 43.7% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 55 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 55 groups had 551,223 adherents in 1980 and 1,208,314 adherents in 2000, for a change of 119.2%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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